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Whether you want the portability of a laptop or the versatility of a desktop

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computer, the Eblaster

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can do both of those things. This is one of the coolest ways I've seen someone

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create a little like all-in-one system, except it's modular in the sense that

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it's just a case. Plus, can your laptop

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do this?

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It's pretty sweet. The signature trick that the E blaster

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can do with the legs is super cool and it's actually a big reason why we even

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did the LTT video a few years ago. I was the writer for that. You know, I've kind

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of built in this thing uh once or twice before. And I just think it's super

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cool. There aren't a ton of differences between that video and then the full

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release except for this guy here, which

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the community has apparently dubbed the Linus hole because we made comments

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about how like, oh yeah, it's sick that you can fit a graphics card in here and

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sure there's tons of ventilation here, but what about, you know, a pass through card? Now you've got holes on both sides

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for some nice air flow. The only other thing that came in our box is this

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actually pretty big set of manuals. Let

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me see if they're just different languages. E Blaster product and safety

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warnings and instructions. This is in German. This is also in German. So,

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you've got two things here. Products and safety warnings, and then your little manual. At the heart of EB Blaster lies

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a trinity of core values: performance, upgradability, and portability. One

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thing that you're going to want to take a look at is their little build diagram here. Uh cuz it's going to tell you

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exactly where all of your components go. With small form factor builds, they're

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usually pretty standard, but there's always a little bit of devian with each one because, you know, maybe it's a

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sandwich style, maybe it's tower style, maybe it's something like this where

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it's all just kind of like a really big uh vertical space kind of like the

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fractal ridge that we actually use for our little like B-roll machine. Let's

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put the legs away.

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Now, with the rest of our package, we've also got a few parts in here. here. Looks like uh maybe a riser cable, uh

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some screws or bolts, as well as uh I'm

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actually not sure what that is. Maybe a USB extension or something. We'll find

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out once we open it up. But I just wanted to talk quickly about the

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aluminum frame um with the I think molded plastic for parts for the legs.

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Overall, it's like pretty sturdy and I'm actually pretty confident about fitting

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parts in here and then taking it with you somewhere because like nothing's

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really going to happen. at least nothing that wouldn't happen if you were carrying a case that got destroyed in

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some other way. We've also got though on the front here not only our power button

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which is going to be right below our monitor which is great. Um but this is a

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vase mount for a monitor. So once you're done eventually this whole unit has a

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display on the front and it's got a computer in the back and you can just

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take the whole thing to a land party. Pop down the legs and you're ready to

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go. And then we're going to plug everything into this little control

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board back here that's got our IO, it's got networking, it's got power, um mic

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and headphone jack. Pretty much everything you're going to need at a LAN. One thing that actually kind of

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took me quite a while to figure out the first time I had this thing here was how

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to open the damn thing. Uh it's it turns out it's pretty easy. You just

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pull these over and then pop the whole thing off. Uh now you've got access to

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the rest of it. Yeah.

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And then you should be able to just Yep.

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take that off. Wow. And so now it's all

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open and it's actually like super easy to build in. Okay. So, what else do we

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get? This is a DisplayPort extension. Flat DP mailto-male 4K. Yes, it is male

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to mail. We have our riser cable. Yeah, this is just a hardware bag with some

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screws and stuff. So, we're going to build a computer in this thing, believe it or not. But not before I talk to you

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Check it out today using our link in the video description. Okay, so we've got a

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bunch of cables here all bundled up. I'm

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guessing is all of our IO extensions, power supply, all that sort of stuff.

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We've got Ethernet here, power cable, another power cable. Yeah, because this

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one's probably for our monitor actually, but we'll figure that all out in a bit.

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And then we've got just your standard kind of IO connections for USB, front

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panel, uh, another USB, and power. I'm

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going to move all these cables out of the way just so that we, you know, keep

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our build experience nice and simple. And then I'm going to look at our

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diagram so I can remember where everything goes. Graphics card goes here. I know that much. I don't really

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know what parts I were selected for me today. I just requested small form

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factor. Looks like we've got some TForce

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memory, 16 gigs, 6400 mega transfers per

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second, so 32 gigs of RAM, DDR5. Pretty

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good speeds, too. That's not bad. Then we've also got our What is this? 9600X

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reasonable gaming CPU.

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As for our cooler, we went with Noctua.

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This is the lowprofile cooler. And what is this guy? This is another lowrofile

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cooler. Why do I have two coolers, Bel? >> Uh, that's Jamie's fault, I guess.

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>> Jamie, before I put her cooler on, I want to install our SSD cuz that's going

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to get in the way of anything over here. So, I'm just going to unscrew this.

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Now, we're going to pop our cooler down. NHL9i

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AM5 specifically from Noctua. Uh, this

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is a great little cooler. I've used them for other small form factor builds.

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While this is a great little cooler, it's not going to do a whole lot for

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much more power hungry chips. If you can fit like even a 240 mm AIO in your ITX

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system, maybe not. But if you can, I'd recommend going that route instead cuz

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it's still super low profile. And then you can maybe mount the radiator somewhere else. Maybe even outside the

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case if you get a little creative. I don't know how good that would look. Probably not very, but you know, it's an

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option here. I got to press more. We've

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got our board pretty much ready to go. I've just got to attach the PCIe riser

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card to it. Um, but this is going to go

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like this somehow. I'm going to follow the diagram and then our graphics card

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will go here and then our power supply go will go here. So, let's get the PSU

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ready. SP750 from Leon Lee. This thing

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is great and it should be big enough. This will take both SFX and I think um

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SFXL or whatever this slightly bigger version of SFX is. And yeah, it kind of

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looks like it looks like there's lots of room here. Actually,

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one thing you might want to avoid, unlike me, I tried screwing in the wrong

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screws into the standoffs. Uh because attached to our standoffs were the

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mounting screws for our motherboard. So, make sure to just unscrew those really

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quick and then use them to mount your board. I wasted way too much time trying

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to screw down uh into literally nothing.

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Some of you might be saying to yourselves, "Plof, that graphics card is

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tiny. What are you doing?" To that I say, I didn't pick this graphics card.

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But you know what? Because of the eblasters uh very generous space, you

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don't have to pick a little lowprofile 4060. Anything up to, I think, 330 mm

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will fit in this guy, aka 33 cm. Glenn

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is back. Glenn is back.

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One quick problem. Uh, you might want to make sure your power supply is oriented

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the right way before screwing it down because I got to flip it over now to

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plug in my power extension.

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All right, we've got everything wired up. graphics card. Definitely too small.

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But I've got our case power going into our power supply that routes out back to

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here to this little I don't know what that is actually. Electrical hazard

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danger. Uh be careful with that. But basically that's a little power splitter

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that's going to uh go out to the wall. And then this extra one is I'm presuming

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for our monitor. Hopefully your monitor takes a C13 power cable. If not, you're

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going to have to run it into its own power source. But let's do the moment of

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truth here. Front powers on the front.

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Wow, it works. Now that I know it works, I'm

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going to power it all off and slap it all together. Would you look at that?

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It's ready to go. One thing you're going to notice is that the monitor's on.

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Well, let me tell you, you're supposed to do that first. So, when you see me

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building it earlier in the video, yeah, don't do it that way cuz you're going to

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have to take it all apart and then put the monitor on after. Um, but if you

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follow the instruction guide like you should, then you end up with something

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like this, where your system is just ready to go. You've got your computer in

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the back, you've got your monitor in the front, and then you've got the legs that

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can extend and go up.

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There we go. It's a little tricky. I'm also doing it backwards, though. You're

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supposed to do it on the monitor side. My one issue with having the thumb

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catches for the legs on this side is while it's unlikely that you're going to

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like hold it right up to your chest when you go to

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let the legs down. There's a very small chance that you would do that and you

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have a zipper on you and you could scratch your monitor. I doubt that's

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going to happen. It's a really minor thing, but just be careful if you're

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ever undoing the legs uh with the monitor that doesn't have any kind of

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like screen protector on it. Other than that though, I mean, don't get me wrong,

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we could have put a bigger graphics card on here, and our monitor is technically

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a little big. It's supposed to be more like 24 inches. I think we've got a 25

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here, but this thing's awesome.

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The leg mechanism isn't perfect. Could use maybe a little bit of adjustment. I

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don't know if ours is just a little worn out from having done it so many times, but the reality is if you're taking this

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to lands, you're going to be putting the legs down and putting them back up again

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at least, I don't know, a few times a year. So, it's a mechanism you want to

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feel good. Um, my other recommendation is when you're picking your monitor, we

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did put some spacers on this one. Um, but even without those spacers, it's

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still coming out a little bit, so it's kind of big. Now, I don't know how well

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that's going to fit into a bag. Ultimately, I don't think the eBlaster

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is for me personally. I don't go to a lot of lands, and even when I do, I have

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a like compact case that's small enough for me to carry. I got a car. I don't

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mind lugging around some extra stuff. But there are some major advantages to

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having something like this over something like this. You've still got a

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screen attached, but now instead of having a mobile version of an RTX 4080,

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you can throw a full fat guy in here. There are other advantages like how hot

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and loud a gaming laptop can be when you're really pushing it. Whereas this

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guy, like there's so much space and cooling back here that even with a big

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beefy card and a reasonably beefy CPU,

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it's going to stay cool and quiet enough depending on what kind of fans you've

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got on it. So, you're not going to be that person that uh busts out the laptop

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and I was like,

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I can't believe I only just thought about this now when I'm reviewing the

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video. But with the eblaster, if your monitor breaks or a new model comes out

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later, you can replace that unlike a laptop.

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That's the fans creeping up as it uh tries to stay cool under load, which

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it's never going to do. And the other reality is you're going to have to buy a

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case anyway. And these days, most decent cases are going to be like at least

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$100. This one is a lot more expensive admittedly, but it's also coming with

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stuff that costs more like a PCIe riser as well as all of the custom

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manufacturing that's gone into this guy um for a very custom design that is used

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for a very specific purpose. At around $420, I think it's expensive, but it's

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also pretty reasonable considering it's, you know, handcrafted and they've done a

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lot of design iteration and it's for a very specific niche use case. Now, would

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I recommend it? I think if you're going to a lot of lands and you need something

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that is beefier than this and you don't want to carry around like a full desktop

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plus monitor, and I think it can work great for the very specific people out

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there who want this very specific design. As for me, I'm probably not

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going to buy one. I don't go to enough lands. I just if I do go to a LAN, I you

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know, whatever. I'll just bring my computer and my monitor. That's good enough for me. But hey, if you like this

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case, maybe check out another case video. Adam tends to do all of her small

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form factor stuff. I only did this guy cuz I did the original e blaster video.

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I'm PLO. This is ShortCircuit. If you want to check out any others, uh, check

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out the Terra, the Fractal Terra. That's a good option if you want to go to a LAN

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and you want to also carry a monitor with